at Hamilton since 1989

Associate Professor Karen Brewer Inorganic Chemistry Office: Chemistry 215 Phone: 315 859-4726 E-mail: kbrewer@hamilton.edu

Education

• B.S.    Ohio Northern University
• Ph.D.   Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research

    (under construction)

Recent Publications

• "11-Hydroxystaurosporine: A Highly Cytotoxic, Powerful Protein Kinase C Inhibitor from a Tunicate"
  R.B. Kinnel and P.J. Scheuer, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 57, 6327-6329 (1992).
  
• "Palau'amine: A Cytotoxic and Immunosuppressive Hexacyclic Bisguanidine Antibiotic from the Sponge Stylotella agminata"
  R.B. Kinnel, H.P. Gehrken and P.J. Scheuer, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 115, 3376-3377 (1993).
  
• "The Volatile Constituents of Aster umbellatus: Umbellafuran, a Hostplant Attractant for a Nymphalid Butterfly"
  J.P. Gale, C.J. Lutz and R.B. Kinnel, 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Hamilton College Sigma Xi Chapter, October 1990.
  
• "A 13C Study of a Yellow Compound from Three Pacific Sponges"
  R.B. Kinnel, H.P. Gehrken and P.J. Scheuer, poster presented at the Marine Natural Products meeting of the Gordon Research Conferences, Ventura, CA, March 1988.
  
• "A Highly Cytotoxic Indolocarbazole from a Pohnpei Tunicate"
  R.B. Kinnel and P.J. Scheuer, presented at the Marine Natural Products meeting of the Gordon Research Conferences, Ventura, CA, February 1992.
  
• "Palau'amine: A Guanidinopyrrole Antibiotic from the Palau Sponge Stylotella agminata"
  R.B. Kinnel, H. Gehrken and P.J. Scheuer, paper presented at the Seventh International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, Capri, Italy, July 5-10, 1992.
  
• "Dibromopalau'amine and Dibromoisopalau'amine: Two New Brominated Bis-Guanidinopyrroles from Stylotella agminata"
  R.B. Kinnel, H. Gehrken, M. Maderia and P.J. Scheuer, presented at the Marine Natural Products meeting of the Gordon Research Conferences, Ventura, CA, February, 1994.